Thomson Reuters

Full Stack Research Engineering Manager / Enterprise Application – Labs Legal Tech

Would you like to work at the forefront of ML/AI/LLMs applied to law?

Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Research Engineering Manager with experience developing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise applications. As a member of Thomson Reuters Labs Legal Tech, you’ll join a team contributing to the success of market-leading contract analysis and drafting products, like Document Intelligence and CoCounsel.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do?

We do research and development, advancing technology to deliver new products to legal, tax, and news markets. As a Research Engineering Manager at Thomson Reuters Labs, you will be part of Labs’ Legal Tech, a cross-disciplinary team focused on automating workflows for legal document drafting, analysis, and review using ML/AI, including using LLMs (Large Language Models) to develop Generative AI skills and enable agent driven workflows.

In this role, you will own and operate a strategically important and closely related enterprise applications:

1. A web application that enables subject matter experts (i.e., lawyers) to label, train, and deploy new machine learning models. Tech stack – C#, .NET, SQL, Elasticsearch, Angular, stack deployed to Azure

2. A backend REST service responsible for hosting those models and coordinating document processing, to process millions of documents per month on behalf of our products and customers. Tech stack – Distributed system design, Azure Service Bus, Python and Rust components.

About The Role

In this opportunity as a Full Stack Research Engineering Manager, you will:

• Own and operate: Take ownership of day-to-day operations of these applications lawyers use to create new NLP-based ML models and process millions of documents per month.
• Develop and Deliver: Apply modern software development practices across the software development lifecycle to build, test, deploy, and optimize and advance application features and performance (both front end and back end).
• Lead and manage: Direct the efforts of your team of 10 software engineers (with experience on both front end and back end) and Research Engineers, nurturing your team’s career development, while managing their performance and individual needs.
• Collaborate and create: Form great working relationships with other leaders, engineers, product managers, scientists, and designers across TR. Collaborate and create to provide a great user experience and make the greatest possible impact.

About You 

You are a fit for the position of Full Stack Research Engineering Manager if your background includes:

Essential skills & experience

• A Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or related field and at least 6 years of software engineering experience · Hands on experience developing medium to large full stack applications using .NET, C# applications and Angular.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining applications in Azure.
• Knowledge of systems design theory and the ability to design systems that provide great functional and non-functional performance at scale.
• Hands on experience using DevOps/CICD/automation tools and concepts.
• Experience managing people, nurturing talent, and managing performance.

Preferred skills & experience

• Incident management, reliability engineering – Prior experience handling incidents, restoring service, fixing root cause issues, and managing user relationships. An understanding of how to use automation to continuously improve stability and build user trust.
• AI/ML – Any knowledge of the AI/ML development lifecycle, or experience with application development in an AI/ML context and/or using AI/ML components is valued.
• Rust – Prior experience with Rust is also valued as a small number of our services are implemented in Rust.

What Is In It For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. In addition to rewarding and challenging work with exceptional colleagues, we offer the following benefits for your personal and professional growth:

• Casual and diverse office environment where colleagues come from over 30 countries
• Competitive salary
• Hybrid work environment (in-office & home)
• Two additional days off for voluntary jobs
• Wellbeing scheme including private healthcare, pension, Multisport card and more
• High standards of ethics in the workplace
• Learning & Development through company sponsored access to learning, mentorship, and networking programs
• Get a 360° view of Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters Labs is a microcosm of the entire corporation, giving employees who work here
• Accelerated growth in cross-business knowledge.
• A rich internal network, including senior leadership representing all customer segments and functions.

#LI-JF1

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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